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Looks like a good show and dinner looked good as well!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
I'm all caught up again after having been away. How cool you were able to do Palo brunch after all!
You're braver than me with the zip lining!
The party for the 4th of July looks really neat. Until I read this, it had never occurred to me that Disney would do something special for that - d'oh!
How fun to see a special show for the 4th of July!! The characters look so cute in their Patriotic costumes!
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I really loved that they celebrated it on the ship and had a special show. This was the first time the Fantasy has done this, so we all felt special.
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Looks like a good show and dinner looked good as well!
It was!
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I'm all caught up again after having been away. How cool you were able to do Palo brunch after all!
You're braver than me with the zip lining!
The party for the 4th of July looks really neat. Until I read this, it had never occurred to me that Disney would do something special for that - d'oh!
I have been loving your facebook pictures!
I do love Palo brunch and I was happy that I attended with them.
In any other situation, zip lining would have never been on my radar. Now, I may give it another try at another port in the future.
It seems like from what I have read not all ships do anything super special for the 4th. That was a big concern in our facebook group and we really had no idea if anything would be done till we got on the ship. I think they announced it the first or 2nd night. It was a first for the Fantasy.
Today was the first port day that we would have an excursion on our own…without any of our friends at all. Claire kept hoping Jeanne and family would join, but they ended up just not doing anything today. They originally had the Baths scheduled but the time was changed and we had a short day in the port as it was, so she decided to cancel it. They told her if she wanted, she could join our excursion, but they needed a rest day.
I had my strawberry cheesecake from last night in my fridge, so that was breakfast today.
I went up top a bit to take a look at Tortola. The horns sounded, which totally scared me, and I tried to catch them. As I was videoing, the NCL Escape pulled right in next to us. The horn did go off again and it scared me again. hahaha
Now I had been on the ship for 7 days…the rest of this sailing was now bonus time! I tried to stay offline from the outside world on most sea days, but in ports I would check my emails and facebook. I was surprised each day to find posts under my pictures saying things like …Are you ever coming home?....Just how long is this cruise?...wish I had your job.
I kind of laughed and thought it was funny. I only had 2 days at WDW before the cruise…and up till this point; most reading would not know how many days my actual sailing was. For my Oct. trip I arrived in FL 3 days before our 7 night cruise and stayed an additional night after. As for wishing they had my job….I do love my job, but this was not a work trip.
I then headed back to the room to get our bag packed and ready for the day. Claire and I then headed down to D Lounge once again to meet for our excursion. Today we were doing Treasure Island Swim & Snorkel.
We were led to our boat and we had to take our shoes off before getting on. They put all the shoes in a clothes basket. They wanted to keep their boat as clean as possible. At first I thought it was strange, but then I realized they really had a good idea.
A lot of people headed for the front, but we just found a both type table and sat down.
Looks like a beautiful day and like you said it's amazing how blue the water is. Hope you enjoy your day at Tortola!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Looks like a beautiful day and like you said it's amazing how blue the water is. Hope you enjoy your day at Tortola!
It was such a great day. The weather was perfect for snorkeling
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We loved Tortola. Can’t wait to see your thoughts on your excursion - it was a close call between it and the baths for us and the baths won.
Brook and Patty went to the Baths and their pictures are amazing.
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I can't wait to hear about Tortola - I'd love to go there one day.
It's really not a super big port, but they offer some nice excursions for snorkeling. unfortunately they got hammered by Irma and I hope they can recover soon.
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That water is amazingly blue! I hope the boat was super clean, because I would be skeeved out to have to go barefoot on a dirty floor.
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It was VERY clean. They took very good care of it.
We were bobbing and I realized I didn’t take sea sickness meds that morning….I did last night, but not again this morning. Now I was psychologically thinking I would get sick. The family behind us was talking about sea sickness meds as well and I asked if they had any extra….it was actually the lady who had been hypnotized the one night and we had talked here and there throughout the cruise. She did have some and I now felt better. LOL.
As we got further out, we were bobbing a bit more and making dips…and all the people in the front were getting huge splashes. You would hear them scream each time it happened….we of course thought it was funny.
The reason I picked this particular excursion was because they said we would be snorkeling in caves. I had talked to someone in Oct who had done this excursion and they raved about it. As we approached the cave areas the captain announced that all the mooring balls were filled up and we would not be able to go to any of the 3 caves today. We would moore further down and have excellent snorkeling and he would keep watch to see if any of the balls opened up.
Total Bummer. I was so looking forward to going into the caves.
I will say the snorkeling was great here. I did see a ton of tiny jellyfish in the water though. I never felt like I got stung, but in spots they were everywhere. I, of course, had jellyfish sting repellent sunscreen…that I did not put on today….and was back in my room.
We swam around looking for the good spots to see. I will warn you now…I took a ton of pictures.
What a bummer that you couldn't snorkel in the caves! They should say in the excursion description that you may snorkel in caves, availability permitting, or something like that. But you saw lots of great sights anyways!
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Too bad about the caves. You got to see a lot and some great photos underneath the sea!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
What a shame about the caves, but you still got to see some pretty neat sights.
I was bummed, but at least it was still good snorkeling
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What a bummer that you couldn't snorkel in the caves! They should say in the excursion description that you may snorkel in caves, availability permitting, or something like that. But you saw lots of great sights anyways!
I agree. It should say they try to get you there. That was the whole reason I booked this particular excursion.
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Too bad about the caves. You got to see a lot and some great photos underneath the sea!
As we were sailing to our next destination, I felt a pinch on my foot. I looked down and it was this big (well he looked big to me) yellow and black spider. That sucker just bit me. I quickly got him smashed…but that sucker hurt.
As we got off, I asked the crew if a yellow spider was poisonous. I told them I didn’t want to go home with some Caribbean fever. LOL. They said no, and looked at what was left of the remains, and the one guy was like…oh that is the terrible poisonous such and such…and then laughed.
I don’t know how that sucker got onboard, but I was not a fan of him. I was fine, but my foot was sore for a bit.
We debated going to get a snack or something to drink, but our friends husband brought out 2 drinks he had bought and it had come to something like $27…um we’ll wait. We don’t HAVE to have anything right now. LOL.
After a bit we decided to head to the bathroom…however Claire wasn’t smart and didn’t go. She will wait till the last possible second. I try to tell her to go when she can because there may not be an option later.
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